History Fanfic / ServiceWithASmile

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12606073/1/Service-with-a-Smile Service With a Smile]]'' is an AlternateUniverseFic of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', written by Creator/CoeurAlAran.

- ProstheticLimbReveal: [[spoiler:Mercury's is different from canon]], being PlayedForLaughs instead of PlayedForDrama.

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Ozpin and Glynda. At one point, she confiscates his scroll, and she notes that while it's been [[spoiler:thousands of years]] since he was last married, he still recognizes the look on her face and decides not to mess with her.

** How does Alexander Sterling try to drive out Jaune from business in Chapter 28? [[spoiler:He buys the property for twice the amount and can evict him after four weeks notice. Even if he sets up somewhere else, they can do it until he's crushed by the relocation costs.]]

* ForWantOfANail: Jaune's fake transcripts aren't accepted, triggering the entire plot. The canonical team lineups are shaken up as a result; Cardin, Ren, Sky, and Nora are on Team CRSN, while Pyrrha and Russel are on a team together.

* AskAStupidQuestion: When Lisa Lavender arrives for a meeting with Roman, one of Junior's men asks if he should let her in. Junoir sarcastically responds, "No, leave her outside and waste both our times."

** Pyrrha and Russel's animosity is kicked off by the fact that he told her he was a fan. He meant it as a compliment, but Pyrrha naturally assumed that he was like her other "fans" and distanced herself from him.

* NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters: Junior and his crew are this to Jaune, willing to go to bat for him [[spoiler:when a pack of violent criminals injure Jaune and trash his diner]].

** Alexander Sterling is a fairly important business man in Vale, especially in the coffee industry, but to someone like Jacques Schnee, he's no more important or influential than someone selling hotdogs out of a cart. This becomes a major problem for Stirling when he unwittingly insults the Schnee name.

* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: A number of Jaune's customers have particularly complicated (and at times contradictory) drink orders. Some, like Ozpin and Weiss, show that they have particular tastes about their coffees. For others, their order shows that they're idiots, such as an unnamed customer who wants soy because they don't drink milk but also wants cream, then claims they don't want sprinkles because they're on a diet even though they ordered caramel sauce and bought a slice of chocolate cake.

* PaperTiger: While dangerous to a small business like Jaune's, Sterling flounders whenever someone isn't intimidated by him. After Velvet puts his bodyguard in a submission hold when Sterling tried to have her removed, he tries to threaten Velvet with being arrested for assault if she doesn't sign an [=NDA=] regarding Cafe Prime closing down Jaune's. Sterling immediately loses his cool and starts shouting when Velvet and Russel openly dare him to call the police on them.

** After some thugs rob Jaune, trash his cafe, and beat him unconscious, his various criminal customers take action. Cinder unlocks his aura so he'll heal in a few days rather than more than a year. Roman puts out word that he's looking for Jaune's stolen weapon. Junior's men completely remake the place. And every last one of them wants payback for what was done to their favorite barista.

** Zigzagged with Cinder. Cinder ultimately sees Jaune's diner as little more than a place to discuss business, and implies that [[spoiler:she'll destroy it in her gambit for power]]. However, [[spoiler:she still somewhat comforts Jaune personally after he attacked by a pack of thugs, and unlocks his aura. While the latter can be explained as wanting to help him keep his business open for her own gain, the former can be chalked up as genuine fondness]].

** After accidentally (as well as "accidentally") stepping on Mercury's feet several times while dancing, Ruby asks if his feet are made of steel. Mercury grins and says yes before tapping one foot against the other to prove it.

** Jaune takes coffee very seriously, declaring that [[BadToTheLastDrop Atlesian Black]] is so awful that people deserve to be paid to drink it. He also get irritated when Winter orders a "standard" coffee, saying it's like telling a chef you prefer your steak "basic"; it means absolutely nothing and makes you look like an idiot.

* SoProudOfYou: When he comes to visit, Nicholas Arc tells his son how proud he is of him for becoming a successful business owner despite no experience.

** Marron the baker chides bunny-girl Velvet for favouring carrot cake. for this reason.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: Despite Ironwood always ordering it, Jaune doesn't serve Atlesian Black and instead mixes several blends together to make something that looks like it but tastes much better. Ironwood always compliments it as the best Atlesian Black he's ever had and Jaune doesn't correct him.

** One of Junior's men accepted a bribe to not notice when some thugs broke into Jaune's cafe, despite knowing full well that not only is Jaune's under Junior's protection, but Junior and the Malachite twins ''love'' his coffee. Junior later mentions the man's body would probably wash ashore in a few days.

* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Junior finds out that the attack on Jaune's happened because one of his men took a bribe to look the other way. While chatting with Roman later, he remarks that the guy will [[CementShoes show up in the bay sooner or later]].]]

* BewareTheSuperman: InUniverse, many of Jaune's civilian customers start abandoning his shop once it becomes a hub for the Huntsmen and Huntresses, as they are wary about being near humans who can beat monsters to death. Torchwick points out that there is a social barrier between regular people and huntsmen, as the latter can cause injury without meaning too.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: When Jaune snaps and lashes out at [[spoiler:everyone involved in the peace talks, Jaune goes through Cinder, Adam, Ironwood, and Ozpin while systematically explaining everything wrong with their ideologies. Then he gets to Roman, calls him useless, and moves on]].

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Just about everyone likes Jaune's diner. Even ''Adam Taurus'' is alright with his establishment, albeit for different reasons than most.

* PersonAsVerb: Team RWBY refers to pulling a LeeroyJenkins as "pulling a Blake".

* IHaveThisFriend: Jaune insists on using this line even when Ruby tells him she's heard it dozens of times before.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Averted with Alexander Sterling, a regional director of Café Prime, [[MegaCorp a major coffee retailer]], and Jaune's rival. While he does engage in marketing schemes that are barely disguised price-fixing, and he is personally [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant and rude]] toward Jaune, [[VillainyFreeVillain he is operating within his rights as a competitor]]. Jaune himself tells off the Malachite Twins for wanting to treat a legal business like a rival gang to destroy. [[spoiler:Played straight, as it's revealed that the hoods who wrecked Jaune's place and injured him were working on orders from Café Prime. Later when he starts receiving bad press due to buying Jaune's building and evicting him, Sterling tries to have Jaune evicted sooner than is legal, even if he has to make up a reason why. What sinks him is the revelation that he used a person he knew in the government to effectively lay waste to an entire street of businesses, some of which have shut down entirely, just to make things harder for Jaune]].

* PayEvilUntiEvil:

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Roman, Junior, and Neo are a pack of vicious criminals, but few complain when they direct that viciousness toward the criminals who hurt Jaune.
** Jacques Schnee is a bad parent and a heartless businessman. It is cool to see him use his legal resources against Café Prime, if only because they dared insult his name.
** Cardin is a racist jerk, but it's very satisfying to hear that he beat Russel's very abusive father to within an inch of his life.

* PaedoHunt: Pyrrha once hugged her agent after a match and the media immediately assumed they were dating, despite her being underage. Even though his name was cleared, his life had been ruined to the point he quit to avoid future allegations.

When Jaune's forged transcripts were rebuffed, his only option was to return home in disgrace or forge a new life in Vale. Opening a diner was an impetuous decision, being good at it a stroke of luck. Becoming the favourite haunt for students, teachers and criminals alike...? That was neither, but it sure did keep things interesting. Wasn't the civilian life supposed to be easier?

* DeathSeeker:
** Somewhere along the way, Adam stopped caring about his own life. Blake specifically notes the similarity between this attitude and the attitude he demonstrated towards the SDC employees on the train. He wasn't going out of his way to kill them, but he saw no reason to try to save them. Likewise, he's not going to sacrifice his life needlessly, but he's not going to particularly care if it comes to that.
** During negotiations, [[spoiler:Adam agrees to be arrested or executed without a blink if that's what it takes to get Ironwood to grant the White Fang what they want]].

* AndTheAdventureContinues: In the epilogue, [[spoiler:it is clear that Team RWBY and his other friends will have to leave Jaune behind in Vale to pursue their own lives. He comes to terms with this and decides he can’t wait for the next batch of Beacon students so he can make more friends... and then ''Salem'' enters his diner and asks for a cup of coffee.]]

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** The following chapter Pyrrha says she has "this friend who has this other friend", to Ruby's infuriation.

** The following chapter Pyrrha takes it UpToEleven by saying she has "this friend who has this other friend", to Ruby's infuriation.

* RealMenWearPink: Junior is a mafia boss and addicted to Jaune's lattes. Chapter 39 reveals that his TrademarkFavoriteDrink is an extra large extra marshmallow chocolate sprinkle cappuccino.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Adam makes a point of ordering his men not to harm Jaune's diner or it's employees due to being one of the few places that neither discriminates against Faunus nor tolerates discrimination.

* GiverOfLameNames: Roman feels this way after hearing Cinder named her white husky puppy "Snow", though he does admit it's not too bad when he realizes it's full name is Snow Fall.

** Before they start getting nasty, Weiss claims Café Prime and it's regional manager Alexander Sterling are technically right to try and force Jaune out of business as soon as possible, citing that it's easier to do so when he's just starting out rather than wait until he's a serious competitor. [[spoiler:Weiss later changes her mind after Sterling crosses the line from VillainyFreeVillain to CorruptCorporateExecutive]].

* VillainyFreeVillain: The closest thing Jaune has to an enemy is Café Prime and it's district manager Alexander Sterling who are merely professional rivals. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out Café Prime hired the goons who trashed Jaune's cafe and beat him.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Has its own [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome/ServiceWithASmile page]].

* BeYourself: [[spoiler:When Miltia tries to act more feminine to get Jaune's attention, Melanie points out that Jaune does like her for who she is, and she shouldn't try and change for him]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Has its own [[RealityEnsues/ServiceWithASmile page]].